Archive for June, 2007

GIMP - the premium freeware image editing software

The best image editing and photo retouching software that remained free is the powerful GIMP.
It is my favourite image editor. In fact, I like it more than Photoshop, which is the industrial champion. Granted, not everyone like to use GIMP. But I may say, once you get the hang of it, GIMP can do wonderful […]

The History of Camera and Photography

Camera and Photography has a relatively long history spanning back into the 17th century. It was in the 1800s that the term ‘photography’ was first coined. ‘Photos’ denotes light and ‘graphein’ denotes draw according to the Greek language. The originator of this word ‘Photography’ is Sir John F.W. Herschel who was a scientist at that […]